Tag: GTAIV

We've seen the cops called over video game-related incidents before. It's just that the fuzz usually gets involved only when someone's committed an actual crime -- too often murder. But no killing was required (at least not in real life) for Boston mom, Angela Mejia, to call 911 on her 14-year-old son. It seems that Mejia just couldn't deal with her boy's constant gaming. According to the ...

Rockstar Games is back with a new episode for 'Grand Theft Auto IV' and boy, does it bring the heat (and by "heat," we mean nudity). 'The Lost and Damned' is the first downloadable extension of 'GTA IV' created exclusively for Xbox 360, and it has boldly chosen to go where few (if any) mainstream video games have gone before. Where has it boldly gone, you ask? Why, to male full-frontal town, of ...

Monday, a six-year-old boy in Wimico Church, Virginia, finding his mother asleep and eight o'clock fast approaching, took it upon himself to drive to school, Neatorama learned from the AP. The boy -- whose name has not been released -- maneuvered turns, passed a few vehicles and careened off the road before running up an embankment and into a telephone pole. Fortunately, he only suffered a ...

Unafraid to incite elitist gamer geek unrest, respected video game industry analyst Michael Pachter has supported a prediction by GigaOM that Wii Fit will outsell 'Grand Theft Auto IV' this year. Yeah, you read right: the latest entry into what is arguably the biggest hardcore video game franchise around is gonna get whooped by an exercise tool -- we're not shocked, we're just laughing. 'GTA4' ...

Okay, so this is something we don't see every day: A video game (specifically 'Grand Theft Auto,' of all things) is being credited with helping a teen girl save her family's lives. The Ottawa Times reports that Audrey Plique, 11, pulled her Streator, Ontario family from the wreckage of their Jeep Grand Cherokee after it went off road, flipped four times, and landed on its side in a ditch. After ...

If you've spent any time at all with 'Grand Theft Auto IV' since its release last week, you know that it's not exactly a kind and cuddly game. Conan O'Brien noted the same thing and in response has envisioned what a PG-rated version of the game might look like. See for yourself in the video above. Whether you love or hate the game, you have to agree that this, um, friendlier version isn't ...

With each subsequent release of the 'Grand Theft Auto' (GTA) series there is always a stir of controversy, with various concerned groups trying to ban the games. The recently released 'GTA IV' is no different, and the latest group to take issue with the game is Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD). The group takes issue with the driving aspects of the game -- specifically, the parts of driving ...

'Grand Theft Auto IV' – or simply 'GTA4' to video game fans in the know – is poised to break sales records during its first week of commercial release, with industry experts predicting it will sell about 6 million copies and make close to $400 million. Though the immense crossover mainstream popularity of the GTA franchise can't be ignored entirely, these big numbers are due in large ...

In the latest case of life imitating art, violence erupted last night among eager video gamers waiting to buy 'Grand Theft Auto IV,' a title that encourages players to engage in virtual criminal acts to complete the game. First, a 23-year-old man waiting in line in for the game outside a video game store in London, England was stabbed repeatedly by a passer-by. Then, in a separate incident ...

'Grand Theft Auto IV' (GTA IV)drops officially today, though if you stayed up late last night you may already have cracked open your copy (and be a little bleary-eyed at work or school this morning). We don't have any official numbers yet, but just about everyone is expecting that, by the end of the week, the game will have smashed the opening day sales records set last year by Microsoft's 'Halo ...

The oft-delayed, eagerly-anticipated, and always controversial 'Grand Theft Auto IV' is just a day away from public consumption (less if you're hitting one of the many midnight launches tonight). But that doesn't mean that the lucky video game journalists of the world haven't been having their kicks with the game for the past few weeks and, with the press black-out lifted ahead of today's release, ...

Despite its famed open environment full of people, the 'Grand Theft Auto' games have been solo experiences. Sure, the PSP games had limited multiplayer, and there have been modifications of the PC games that let you meet some friends online, but none of that has really impacted the core gameplay. That may be poised to change with the upcoming installment, 'Grand Theft Auto IV.' Rumor has it that ...